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Yep, I built gaming PCs for years, and I have a few laying around.. Add some ram and they a great servers (without memory safety though).

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Without memory safety? Do you mean ECC?

Non-ECC issues are statistically rare. You might never see them if you aren’t running a lot of systems at heavy load at scale.

Yeah, ecc. I do have a lot of data intensive services running. But my systems are mostly amd, and I'm pretty sure my amd CPUs can actually use ecc memory, so I'll probably upgrade some day.

I've run non-ECC systems at heavy load for uptimes in excess of a year and not had issues. It really is statistically rare... but of course common enough that if you run whole data centers you will see it.

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